Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files

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Elijah Newren, Mon, Oct 08, 2007 02:09:50 +0200:
> On 10/7/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > you missed something. Your example compresses to about 124k.
> 
> What version of git are you running?  I reran all the steps to which

git version 1.5.3.4.225.g31b973 (irrelevant custom modifications)

> you responded (repeated below for clarity) with git-1.5.3.3 and still
> get 11MB.  Also, you must have different filesystem extents than me
> since an empty git repo takes 196k here[1], so I don't think any repo
> is going to get down to 124k.

it is ext3. I do not install the hooks (~8k apparent, ~32k fs blocks)
and never activate logs by default.

> # Use vi to remove the line referring to refs/original...
> git reflog expire --all

another part of the suggestion re reflogs was to look into the logs,
to check if expire actually removed anything. It seems to have been
the culprit.

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